Novel multidisciplinary approach detects multiple individuals within the same Late Bronze-Early Iron Age cremation graves

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F24%3A00138790" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/24:00138790 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/novel-multidisciplinary-approach-detects-multiple-individuals-within-the-same-late-bronzeearly-iron-age-cremation-graves/C96C123B3AAC953EAD1806B6A1C801FF" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/novel-multidisciplinary-approach-detects-multiple-individuals-within-the-same-late-bronzeearly-iron-age-cremation-graves/C96C123B3AAC953EAD1806B6A1C801FF</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2024.82" target="_blank" >10.1017/RDC.2024.82</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Novel multidisciplinary approach detects multiple individuals within the same Late Bronze-Early Iron Age cremation graves

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Cremation graves appear in different forms and shapes, from urns to simple pits and from single to plural graves. The challenging nature of highly fragmented cremated human remains renders the identification of multiple individuals within the same cremation grave rather complex. Osteological analyses alone are often insufficient to detect the presence of bone fragments from different individuals as they are small and diagnostic elements are often missing, although, detection of nonadult bone fragments within adult bone assemblages (or the other way around) points to the presence of at least two individuals-one adult and one nonadult-within the same grave. The combination of osteological analyses, radiocarbon dating, and strontium isotope ratios has proven to be particularly powerful. At different Belgian Metal Age sites, this novel multi-disciplinary approach enabled to identify the presence of bone fragments belonging to up to three different individuals within the same cremation grave who were cremated up to several centuries apart. Whether the presence of these two or three individuals in the same grave is intentional (e.g. curation) or not requires more in-depth analyses. This study shows the high level of complexity of cremation burial (intentionally or not) and shows the necessity to carry out all analytical measurements (i.e. radiocarbon dating, infrared, elemental and isotope analyses) on the same bone fragment to ensure the results are related to the same individual.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Novel multidisciplinary approach detects multiple individuals within the same Late Bronze-Early Iron Age cremation graves

Popis výsledku anglicky

Cremation graves appear in different forms and shapes, from urns to simple pits and from single to plural graves. The challenging nature of highly fragmented cremated human remains renders the identification of multiple individuals within the same cremation grave rather complex. Osteological analyses alone are often insufficient to detect the presence of bone fragments from different individuals as they are small and diagnostic elements are often missing, although, detection of nonadult bone fragments within adult bone assemblages (or the other way around) points to the presence of at least two individuals-one adult and one nonadult-within the same grave. The combination of osteological analyses, radiocarbon dating, and strontium isotope ratios has proven to be particularly powerful. At different Belgian Metal Age sites, this novel multi-disciplinary approach enabled to identify the presence of bone fragments belonging to up to three different individuals within the same cremation grave who were cremated up to several centuries apart. Whether the presence of these two or three individuals in the same grave is intentional (e.g. curation) or not requires more in-depth analyses. This study shows the high level of complexity of cremation burial (intentionally or not) and shows the necessity to carry out all analytical measurements (i.e. radiocarbon dating, infrared, elemental and isotope analyses) on the same bone fragment to ensure the results are related to the same individual.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Radiocarbon

ISSN

0033-8222

e-ISSN

1945-5755

Svazek periodika

66

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

761-773

Kód UT WoS článku

001330920900001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85207464028